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Really Cool Pinterest Tools

Are you using any Pinterest tools? Are you even aware that tools for Pinterest exist? I love tools…templates, programs, apps, power tools (honest) and, most especially, social media tools. Anything that helps me streamline how I manage my social media, I am all over. Some of the tools I use measure stats, others help me manage my time, while others are just really cool.

Today I'd like to share with you some of my favorite tools for Pinterest. As a mixed media artist and designer for the craft and hobby industry…I'm a visual person. No surprise there, right? So, when I was first introduced to Pinterest about a year ago, I was hooked immediately. When I say hooked, I mean…I need to set a timer whenever I mosey onto the site. Boy, do I wish that time had a snooze sometimes.

Pinterest is the fastest growing social platform in history! However, despite that fact, Pinterest is still in its infancy. As time goes on, I am certain that we will see some amazing tools pop up. In the meantime, here are some of my favorites.

Pinterest Right Click

Pinterest Right Click is an extension available for Google Chrome. This handy app enables you to pin just by right clicking (or control clicking for Mac users). You can use it for pictures and for video, which is way cool.

An added bonus…you can also use this extension to share on Facebook.

Pinterest Image Expander

Pinterest Image Expander is another Google Chrome extension. This tool is really cool. Once you have installed it, you can hover over an image inside of Pinterest and it will show you a larger view of that image.

I find this feature particularly helpful when I am trying to read text on a pin. I can view it without having to actually open the pin. So, it alleviates having to keep hitting the back button. Simple, yet effective time saver.

Pinerly is still in beta testing and not yet readily available to all. I was fortunate enough to procure an early invite, so I am still just playing with it myself.

This tool works with your regular Pinterest account and functions similarly in that it has its own bookmarket. I can use the "Pinerly It" bookmarklet to attach pins to my boards in Pinterest. I also have the option to go into Pinerly directly and upload a photo if I'd like. Why would I do that? When I add a pin through Pinerly, it is called a campaign. The cool thing about pinning through Pinerely is that it will track that specific pin for me using what they call Pinalytics. Who doesn't love stats!?

Pinerly will also suggest people for me to follow and images for me to pin. To be completely honest…these features have yet to impress me. What I am really waiting for is the scheduling feature that is not available yet. I'm curious to see how that will work.

Quozio has quickly become one of my favorite little tools. It is a simple and quick way to take a quote, turn it into a graphic and pin it right to your boards. I find it very helpful for turning quotes from my own posts into cool graphics.

First, you download a bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. Then you highlight a section of text from any website and click the "Quote with Quozio" extension. A pop up window appears with the highlighted text. You can edit that if need be by adding quotation marks, etc. Under that, you add the author of the quote and click "Go". It will generate a graphic to put behind your quote, which you have the option to change. There are quite a few images to choose from. Then you pin it!

PicMonkey is awesome! Let's face it…the prettiest pins get the most repins. That is just a fact. Awesome eye candy is a must on Pinterest. This tool helps you make your pictures pretty AND you don't need any graphic skills at all.

The free version has many effect available for you to use. You'll have to just check it out for yourself. My very favorite feature so far, however, is their collage feature. While I do possess a little bit of graphic skills, this take the guess work out and saves me a ton of time. You won't believe how easy this is until you just go an try it for yourself. Oh…and you can save whatever you make.

Here is an example of a collage that I whipped out in just a few minutes (and it probably just took that long because I was playing with the different effects lol):

Pretty neat, huh?

My final tool is really more of a tip. Do you know if people are pinning images from your website? Or what they are pinning? Here is how you can check.

Type into your browser the following URL:

http://pinterest.com/source/yoururl.com

So for me, I would type in: http://pinterest.com/source/theresacifali.com

So, are you using any Pinterest tools? I'd love to have you share them in the comment section below. You can count on my reply. 🙂

Rhonda, you’re going to love Pinterest. Start simple…make boards for things you like. So if you are into handbags, that’s a great place to start. Check out other people’s boards…you’ll get some great inspiration there.

Thanks for the tips. I recently installed Pinterest Analytics but found that their numbers and those I had started to collect on my own didn’t jive. I used the numbers at the bottom of the post and the numbers they quoted as the highest number of pins didn’t agree. Any idea why?